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April 11, 2025
Lloyd Lee, Managing Partner at Yoo Capital discusses the company’s investment in Olympia and Camden, reflecting a bold belief in London’s enduring global appeal – and what makes a successful architect-client relationship for him. Render of the Kensington Olympia masterplan, shown here at dusk. When did you decide to invest in the Olympia project and […]
April 10, 2025
My Kind of Town: Tom Lacey Tom Lacey explains how London’s Olympic Park has evolved into a thriving neighbourhood, but kept the wild, unpolished spaces that are a respite from city life. My family and I have lived in Chobham Manor, one of the Olympic Legacy developments, for five years now. An architect buying a […]
April 3, 2025
Backlit HIMACS solid surface panels articulate the eye-catching ‘Sounds of Hayes’ underpass in west London. In association with Demonstrating how effectively HIMACS solid surface can transform any setting, the high-performance, ultra versatile material has been used to illuminate the history of EMI records in Hayes, where it now lines the walls of a widely-used pedestrian […]
March 26, 2025
HUT Architecture has sympathetically transformed a 1930s army drill hall into co-working offices, a café, and apartments in the heart of London’s Mile End. Photos Billy Bolton Originally constructed in 1939 for the Royal Army Service Corps 1st Anti-Aircraft Division, the former drill hall in Mile End, east London, has had many lives – as […]
March 21, 2025
Retrofitting the physical world is one thing but you have to retrofit the user. We start every project with a workshop where we ask the client “what does sustainability mean to you?” If we asked “what does regenerative architecture mean to you?” they’d probably say “Huh?” One of them, a nuclear physicist, said “I want nothing […]
March 20, 2025
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Deltek and Vectorworks, exploring the opportunities, challenges, and real-world applications of AI and new software tools for shaping the future of architecture and construction. Efficiency, workflow, new business, creativity, and sustainability are key concerns in the industry. AI and digital tools offer new ways to enhance project management, […]
March 14, 2025
Tarek Merlin, director and co-founder at Feix&Merlin reflects on the ever-changing nature of MIPIM, where chance encounters and meaningful conversations defined his experience. This year, he took to the stage to discuss inclusivity in real estate and the value of a queer lens in housing design. How are you enjoying MIPIM? The thing that surprises […]
March 14, 2025
Richard Roberts, managing & design director at Jason Bruges Studio, looks back on a successful MIPIM filled with valuable conversations and unexpected meetings — despite the daily downpours – and looks ahead to an exciting period with multiple art installations launching in the US and London. Designed for Hankook Tire’s headquarters in Pangyo, Seoul, by […]
March 10, 2025
Pernilla Ohrstedt Studio’s winning design for Times Square Arts’ annual Love & Design Competition reimagines public art as both a celebration of love and an ecological intervention. Photos Naho Kubota Before it became the Big Apple, New York was the Big Oyster. In fact, before New York was even New York, when Lenape tribes inhabited […]
March 7, 2025
Publica has spent 15 years reshaping public spaces through research-led methodologies, participatory planning and innovative urban policies. AT talks to Lucy Musgrave, Anna Mansfield, Gaia Crocella and Lou Elena Bouey about working with CHANGE (City Hub and Network for Gender Equity) to investigate – and ultimately improve – the experiences of women, girls and gender […]
March 6, 2025
AT talks to… Yẹmí Aládérun and Zoë Berman about the launch of Part W’s Built Barriers campaign. Photograph by Roca London. What are Built Barriers? Our city is littered with a lack of care and thought for the needs of women and girls. Everyday, women are forced to navigate spaces that weren’t designed with them […]
February 26, 2025
AT talks to… director at RCKa, Russell Curtis, about his practice’s modular concept that looks to use meanwhile sites for those looking for temporary housing. What inspired the initial concept for these modular homes? The issue of temporary accommodation is significant—there’s a huge amount of money being spent on it, around £1.6 billion a year. […]
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